latest Firefox fails on https

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:19:30PM -0500 ..
> 
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 22:13 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:03:03PM -0500 ..
> > > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:42:54AM -0500 ..
> > > >> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > >>> Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:36:37PM -0500 ..
> > > >>>> On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 22:02 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > >>>>> Hi folks,
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> In the hope I will not make a fool out of myself with this question:
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> I just brought my laptop to the very latest 8-CURRENT.  Worked without a
> > > >>>>> hitch.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> As a side project I decided to also bring all ports up to date to the
> > > >>>>> latest.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> One of the ports is Firefox.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Which now gives me the following error message on every https: URL that I
> > > >>>>> try:
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> 	Unexpected response from server
> > > >>>>> 	Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> 	    *   Check to make sure your system has the Personal Security Manager
> > > >>>>> 		  installed.
> > > >>>>> 	    *   This might be due to a non-standard configuration on the server.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> I now have built from ports:
> > > >>>>> 	firefox-2.0.0.11,1  Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> > > >>>>> 	nss-3.11.7          Libraries to support development of security-enabled applic
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> A somewhat earlier Firefox 2.0.0.x (whatever the prebuilt packages server
> > > >>>>> currently carries) I fetched via pkg_add -r gave me the same error message.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Firefox works just fine with normal http servers.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Google gives me lots of "me too" and assorted Linux crud but nothing
> > > >>>>> relevant to FreeBSD unfortunately.
> > > >>>> Rebuild devel/nspr, security/nss, then www/firefox, and you should be
> > > >>>> fine.
> > > >>> Took a while (P3 1.2GHz laptop) but it does not work, same problem still.
> > > >> That sucks.
> > > > 
> > > > Well.. it just tests my patience :)
> > > > 
> > > >>> What makes me suspicious is that the precompiled 8-current package exhibited
> > > >>> the same problem.
> > > >> That's not good.  SSL is working fine for me, and I see no reason why it
> > > >> should show as disabled.  Please provide the output of make configure
> > > >> for firefox.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you mean config.log ?  I have attached that one, and mozilla-config.h
> > > 
> > > No, the output of make configure would have been more useful.  As would
> > > work/mozilla/config/autoconf.mk after running make configure.
> > 
> > Woops.  Here is autoconf.mk 
> 
> Okay, I'm stumped.  The config looks like NSS was properly detected.
> Perhaps there is a problem with this particular site.  If you can,
> please provide the URL you are using to test.  There may also be a
> configuration problem.  Try creating a new, fresh account, and see if
> firefox works there.

I noticed something potentially interesting when starting firefox from a
shell window (normally I start it from a windowmaker menu):

wb at chuck ~: firefox
Error sanitizing sessions: TypeError:
Components.classes['@mozilla.org/security/sdr;1'] has no properties

Makes me go hmm?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org